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London’s Best Vegan Street Food

London’s Best Vegan Street Food

Last Updated: 1st November 2018

Vegan street food.

You’d be forgiven for thinking there weren’t any steaks.

But these days it’s an increasingly dog-eat-dog competitive market, fuelled by a bevy of vegan and non-vegan traders alike. So we’ve taken the liberty of compiling a little bucket list of the greatest vendors and London’s best vegan street food dishes, from dairy-free doughnuts to Eritrean tacos.

All hail the Queen Vegan pizza, sporting a tomato base topped with artichoke hearts, green olives, sunblush tomatoes and a drizzle of pesto. Turns out cheese has totally been freeloading off these toppings.

Welcome to Club Mexicana, where the dishes are (animal product) free. Their vegan takes on tacos and burritos replace baja fish with battered tofu, and pulled pork with fleshy barbecued jackfruit, to create some of the most filling of fillings.

V Burger make burgers. And they’re v good. The Up-Beet comprises a slow-roasted British beetroot and quinoa patty served with smoked tomato relish, lettuce, tomato, gherkins, sliced red onion, topped with a garlic and chive aioli; while the Seitan schnitzel comes breaded and deep-fried and slathered with chipotle mayo.

Eritrean street food traders Lemlem Kitchen have created a little heap of genius: the Afro-taco. Instead of using maize dough like traditional tacos, they cook up gluten-free injera, a spongy, crumpet-like pancake that’s used to serve several typical Eritrean dishes. Here, they play host to garlicky stewed red lentils topped with a red cabbage and ginger slaw.

Think of your favourite meals, and Young Vegans will probably have put it into pie form. You want a steak and ale-style number made with meat substitute? You got it. Fancy a whole curry inside your pie? No problemo. Like full English (vegan) breakfasts, but can’t help feeling they would taste better inside a pie? So do they.